Highway Patrol cuts would impact us all

1:00 PM,
Apr. 19, 2013

Written by

Robert Lewis, Asheville

Now we learn that Gov. McCrory's proposed cost-cutting budget may result in the closing of the Highway Patrol Communications Center in Asheville. If passed, many local residents will lose their jobs. Forget the Citizen-Times headline that reads "Cuts aimed at Highway Patrol," for this austerity really hits the people of Western North Carolina from Buncombe to Cherokee County on through Graham, Swain, Haywood, Madison, Yancey, Mitchell, Avery, to ...